Hello every one! This is my first fanfic and I really hope that it gets well received.

This was inspired by albert27's The Shinigami of Fairy Tail, and .Fly's What Weapons Are For. Both are really great stories that I really enjoy.

Fairy Princess, Shinigami Knight

Chapter 1: Things are gonna get out of hand.

Everything was going as it should've in the Miss Fairy Tail contest: Every one enjoying the show of the girls showing off. They were finally on the last contestant, Lucy, who has just arrived on-stage when Evergreen interrupts and easily tricks Lucy to look into her eyes. Even though Gray had warned her not to, she did, thus she became petrified. Subsequently, the rest of the girls that participated are revealed to have undergone the same fate. The rest of the Thunder God Tribe, plus Laxus, reveal themselves to the rest of the guild. Laxus announces there will now be a contest for the strongest mage in Fairy Tail, with the entire of Magnolia as the battlefield. Every mage is to be pitted against each other, which includes himself and the Thunder God Tribe, and the one that remains will be declared the strongest. He then leaves, starting The Battle of Fairy Tail, after giving the guild a window of only three hours; otherwise the petrified girls will turn to dust. Eventually only two mages remain, who, unfortunately for them, cannot get past Freed's rune barrier that was placed over the entire guild. The barrier bars passage to anyone who is over the age of 80, and is a stone statue. As they are neither petrified, nor over 80 years old, dragon slayers Natsu and Gajeel are stumped at their inability to leave the guild. (Maybe it's their tough as stone skin? :3) Things are definitely not looking good for Marakov…

"RRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!" yelled Natsu, obviously fed up. He strides over to the stone statues of the girls. "We won't get anywhere with all of this. Oh, well might as well revive Erza."

"WHAT?!" shouted Marakov and Happy unanimously, shocked at Natsu's decision.

Natsu groaned. "Just when I thought I could have a one-on-one fight with her…"

"Hold on!" Marakov said. "W-what do you mean r-revive h-her?"

"If I burn her it'll come off right? The stone or whatever," Natsu said.

"DOOOOOOOON'T!" Marakov exclaimed.

"Erza and the others have been turned to stone completely!" Happy added, just as frightened as Marakov.

"We won't know until we try, right?" Natsu had laid the statue of Erza on the floor.

"Stop it! You only kill Erza!" Makarov shouted.

Ignoring Marakov's warnings, Natsu held his fists over Erza's breasts, igniting them with his flames.

"Broil her nice and good!" said Natsu, perverted grin lighting up his face.

"What the heck! You want to rub it on her?!" Marakov said.

Gajeel decided to put his opinion on the matter forth as well. "Dude, don't have to be so frisky…"

Everything stopped the moment they heard Erza crack. They began to panic. "Shit! Glue! Happy, go get glue!" Natsu frantically yelled.

"Aye, sir!" came his reply as he flew off to retrieve said glue.

"Dumbass, you think glue will help? Here," Gajeel held out his arm, turning it into iron, "melt my iron and we'll weld her back up."

"You're both fools!" Marakov shouted.

More cracks resounded and Natsu went into a full-on panic. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Then the stone broke apart, revealing a completely fine Erza.

"I feel hot," Erza looked pissed. "Was it you….Natsu?" She proceeded to punch him, along with Gajeel. "What were you trying to do?!"

"Why was I hit too…?" Was all he asked.

Happy was happy that Erza was alright. "Yay! Erza's back!"

"Thank goodness, but how….? Marakov let the question hang.

"I'm not sure. Maybe it's my right eye that was the cause?" Came Erza's immediate reply.

Of course! Because of her magical eye, she only received half of the magic, therefore halving the spell! Marakov thought to himself.

"Do you know what's happening, Erza?" Happy asked of the female mage.

"I heard about everything that has happened, despite being turned into stone," she replied to the winged cat.

"Yeah! It's time for a counterattack!" Marakov said. He was now confident that they could win this.

The five then turned to walk towards the entrance, to see the rune barrier announcing the number of combatants increasing from two to three.

"Hmm. Very clever, it recognizes me a participant and changes accordingly," Erza mused.

"That would be Natsu, Gajeel, and Erza, right?" Happy couldn't help but ask. At that moment the number increased to four.

"Four remain?"

Then, before anyone could say anything else, the number rose again. This time to six.

"EEHHHHHH?! Now it's six?!" Happy exclaimed.

"Three more…." Gajeel was dumbfounded.

Natsu immediately turned to look at the other girls. "Who? Everyone's still frozen. So who?"

At this Erza grinned, as she figured out who the new arrivals were. "We still have four out there. I doubt that one of them is Gildarts. There's no alarm. That only leaves them."

Natsu immediately light up in excitement. "You mean….them?!"

"You're serious?!" Happy was surprised.

Marakov as well. "They finally returned?!"

"Looks like the real war is about to start." Erza smiled, confidence radiating from her.

Gajeel, on the other hand, was confused. "Who's coming?"

"Two are qualified to be holders of the title of Fair Tail's strongest mage," said Erza. "The first is perhaps the most mysterious mage in the guild, Mystogan!"

"And the other?" Gajeel asked.

"He arrived at the guild around four years ago and was promoted to S-class a year after. He was strong enough that Master gave him his first SS-class job six months ago! Looks like he finished it, just in time too," Erza gave him a confidant grin.

Who the hell can be that powerful?! Gajeel thought in shock. Realizing something, he asked, "A-and his name?"

"Oops, I guess I forgot to tell you his name. He goes by the name of Ichigo Kurosaki."

"Okay, but who is the last one?" Gajeel asked.

Natsu spoke up here, "Naoko! She's gonna be with Ichigo!"

"Who is she to Ichigo?" asked a now curious Gajeel.

"Ichigo is her—"

=3=

"Daddy! Are we there yet?" a small six year old girl with black hair that almost reached her waist and a lock of blue hair that covered her right eye ran up to a tall orange haired young man with a large cleaver-like sword that was wrapped in bandages strapped to his back.

The man chuckled. "Yes, Naoko, we have arrived at Magnolia. And just in time for the Fantasia Festival." An explosion caught his attention. "Though, it looks like we might have some trouble."

Naoko beamed at her father as her picked her up. "Okay~!" she turned to face Magnolia. "Let's go!"

Ichigo smirked and they disappeared, leaving only a small cloud of dust where he was standing.

=3=

Inside Kardia Cathedral, Laxus couldn't help but grin. "So, Erza has revived, and Mystogan and the Kurosakis have joined in. Throw me in and you have the top four mages of Fairy Tail." At that, he began roaring with laughter. "Now this is what I call a festival!" He began his wait again, this time with renewed excitement at the thought of what was to come.

=.=

To albert27: *on the floor bowing in apology* I'm sorry! I had to use several lines from your story. I hope you don't get mad at me using them. I did what I could to put it in my own way of writing and not be constantly using yours, but there were some parts that I couldn't think of a better way of writing them than with the way you had wrote it.

To any readers: I do hope that you enjoyed this and please leave a review saying if you liked it, if you hated it, or if you think it could use anything more. Thanks!